Hello!
I've missed writing here; soon this may resume with poetry, but in the meantime, something long but hopefully friendly.
first, some things of which it can be said "I didn't have time to write them as poems, so I wrote them long instead." (which of course describes this whole email)
puffin: a sip-puff joystickcomments (of any and all kinds) welcome! If Medium bothers you about registering, try closing the tab and opening the links again. Eventually, there will be a proper blog.
second, some recent good quotes:
"There’s a panoramic vagueness out there, past the propeller."
"pets (in the 16th century the word usually referred to a lamb raised by hand)"
"I think about how when I was young, how
exciting things still were. How dazzling new people could be. I remember
how much I loved new humans, sizing them up and swallowing them whole."
"Teaching goal: Any student who meets the
prerequisites, regardless of other background, should be able to create
something that surprises me"
"I come back from a walk full of ideas but
feeling rearranged in some way I can’t make use of. I’ve experienced
that feeling a lot recently."
third, let's start a conversation! It's surely but fair, after you've read these unfinished thoughts, for me to muse on some of yours.
-Ned